Lesson Learned: Don’t Fly To North Pole In A Balloon
In the late 19th century, scores of celebrated, valorous explorers attempted to reach the North Pole. Groups of explorers from …
Duke Fakir Of The Four Tops Plays Not My Job
Duke Fakir was still a high school student in Detroit when he started performing songs with three friends in the …
Steven Soderbergh Starts Cracking Skulls In ‘Haywire’
Haywire, which opens today, is Steven Soderbergh’s 24th feature film. With its laconic ’70s rhythms, color-coded visual palette, and buoyant …
Brad Pitt: On Life, Movies And ‘Moneyball’
This interview was originally broadcast on September 22, 2011. Brad Pitt is aware that his portrayal of a baseball-team manager …
Pop Culture Happy Hour: The Golden Globes And Twitter Criticism
Did you watch the Golden Globes? We did, and as the glamour-puss part of awards season begins in earnest, we …
‘Crazy Horse’: Color And Light, And Bodies In Motion
Over nearly four decades and 40 documentaries, 82-year-old director Frederick Wiseman has taken reluctant ownership of terms like “direct cinema,” …
In St. Louis, An Urban Renewal Experiment Gone Bad
By the time it was imploded in the 1970s, after barely two decades of use, St. Louis’ Pruitt-Igoe housing project …
Carol Channing, Still Delightfully ‘Larger Than Life’
Whenever the late New York Times caricaturist Al Hirschfeld sketched Carol Channing — whether picturing her as an indomitable Dolly …
Stephen Colbert Wants You To Know: That’s Definitely Not His SuperPAC
Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert is running for president. He’s parodying the process — including, now, superPACS — in the same …
‘Coriolanus’: A People’s Hero Turns On His Own
Ralph Fiennes showed up for a frenzied cameo near the end of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, and her hand-held, …
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